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<span class="cutline_leadin">Pearl Harbor veteran Durrell Conner</span>, above, reflects after receiving a flag Friday at the state Department of Veterans Affairs&#x2019; Medal of Honor Hall in Sacramento. Below, Peggy Walker-Conner enters the ceremony with her husband, flanked by a Naval JROTC Cadet Honor Guard.

<span class="cutline_leadin">Pearl Harbor veteran Durrell Conner</span>, above, reflects after receiving a flag Friday at the state Department of Veterans Affairs&#x2019; Medal of Honor Hall in Sacramento. Below, Peggy Walker-Conner enters the ceremony with her husband, flanked by a Naval JROTC Cadet Honor Guard.

Veterans and their families salute the flag during the annual Pearl Harbor wreath laying ceremony at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Saturday, December 7, 2013. The ceremony is presented by the United States Submarine Veterans, and marks the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Veterans and their families salute the flag during the annual Pearl Harbor wreath laying ceremony at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Saturday, December 7, 2013. The ceremony is presented by the United States Submarine Veterans, and marks the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Bugler Baldwin Wong salutes as a wreath is lain into the Sacramento River during a Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Friday, December 7, 2012.

Bugler Baldwin Wong salutes as a wreath is lain into the Sacramento River during a Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Friday, December 7, 2012.

Elmer Wright, of Clovis, California stands by a Pearl Harbor marker at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Elmer Wright, of Clovis, California stands by a Pearl Harbor marker at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.